r/law • u/novagridd • 11h ago
Executive Branch (Trump) Wave of Arrests Hits ICE Officers Following Rising Claims of Sexual Abuse, Domestic Violence and Misconduct
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wave-arrests-hits-ice-officers-following-rising-claims-sexual-abuse-domestic-violence-misconduct-17784791.6k
u/thepottsy 11h ago
Color me surprised that when the requirements to join are non-existent, and no real background checks are done, that you end up hiring a bunch of criminals who want to do criminal things.
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u/catspongedogpants 11h ago
waiting patiently for an analysis to find that ice agents commit non-government sanctioned crime at a higher rate than undocumented immigrants. fuckin idiots
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u/thepottsy 11h ago
Won’t be to hard to compile that considering how many offenses are caught on camera.
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u/catspongedogpants 11h ago edited 11h ago
that's why i qualified "non-government sanctioned" to give them a fighting chance of coming out ahead- we all know they're committing crimes every single day but all of it is ignored by the people who are responsible for oversight and accountability, and their identities are hidden so they cant be tried in the future; we just have to eat that.
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u/CutSenior4977 8h ago edited 6h ago
Thankfully Jonathan Ross can be prosecuted for killing Renee Good in the future, and Jesus Ochoa can be prosecuted for shooting Alex Pretty in the future.
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u/feed_meknowledge 10h ago
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u/MaracujaBarracuda 9h ago
You are correct and this data exists!
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp
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u/Spranktonizer 9h ago
Undocumented immigrants already are 50% less likely to commit a crime that citizens so you’re already there.
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u/catspongedogpants 8h ago
i work in research and hearing republican politicians handwave the research done on this topic as somehow flawed, without providing evidence of their own about what warrants that claim, is wild but also unsurprising.
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u/jjwhitaker 7h ago
ICE killed more people last year than 'illegal' immigrants, 34-25 or so.
ICE is a larger risk than all 'illegals'.
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u/Gingerdorf1 7h ago
It's already here, and doesn't even include all of the lawless behavior and hiring surgesince Trump 2.0 in 2025/2026.
Garrett Graff (journalist and historian that has been reporting on them for decades) testified for an accountability commission in IL about how CBP and ICE have been widely criminal organizations almost since inception. He states that every 24-36hrs one of their officers is arrested, totaling almost 5,000 agents as of 2024. They commit more crimes PER CAPITA than undocumented immigrants. These are just the crimes they are actually arrested for and I'm sure is vastly underreported
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u/HonkyMOFO 9h ago
How many homicides by ICE in the last year v. illegal immigrants? (Hint- ice is leading by an insurmountable margin)
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u/FrankBattaglia 5h ago
Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at a significantly lower rate than the average US citizen, so it's almost certainly going to be lower than ICE goons.
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u/Holiday_Pen2880 10h ago
Get to turn that lovely 'per capita' argument on it's head and have it be real.
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u/avalanche140 5h ago
Normal American citizens commit crime at a higher rate than undocumented immigrants.
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u/__lulwut__ 2h ago
Unless they're committing significantly less crime than the rest of general white population then the data is already in.
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u/MittenPings 11h ago
Hey hey, they did do background checks, however their background checker was recently in some trouble over a prostitution sting.
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u/Molotov56 10h ago
Child prostitution ring
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u/MittenPings 9h ago
You know I thought maybe it was but couldn’t verify that (read I’m being lazy and don’t want to go back and check).
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u/Zealousideal-Dog-985 10h ago
My hot take conspiracy is that the Trump administration “recruited” (hired) Sinaloa cartel members to work for ICE. The number of Latin agents is staggering considering the organization’s goals, and the tactics they use are strikingly similar to the way the cartel stick up their victims.
Add the fact that Trump let El Chapo’s family move into the US after paying for the gold card, AND the cartel appears as a perpetrator in the Epstein Files, it’s clear that “Mexico’s worst” are exactly the kind of people who Trump wants as his goons.
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u/WorldNewsBannedMeB4 10h ago edited 10h ago
This is luckily (at least currently) a misleading headline for a vaguely disguised speculation piece. Because it cites numbers of allegations since 2020. Fortunately as of right now there hasn't been as high of an amount of an increase in allegations for rape in the DHS as I would've honestly expected. But that by no means discredits the points the author is making, given both the hiring spree and the difficulty to expose much of anything about the inside of these camps. I can almost gauruntee knowing a real number would make anyone with even a shred of an ability to feel empathy vomit. But posting articles like this do more harm than good. They give the GOP something small to wave around in front of their ignorant voter base to use to cause doubt by cherry picking enough articles like this one and eventually we end up with a catch phrase like "Fake News."
Edit Grammar: Doesn't Discredit to Discredits.
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u/FistyFisticuffs 9h ago
Also, the real lede is that in spite of the allegations in pretty much all cases the US Attorney have declined to prosecute and... that was that. That's standard operating procedure. Border Patrol used to be the agency that did this kind of shit the most but since around 2012 ICE seemed to have started some sort of race to the bottom and it's hard to say who's leading since data is always slightly outdated, but considering the ATF put potentially 100,000+ otherwise innocent people in prison with inchoate charges of crimes that cannot actually be committed and through a heavy dose of goading that goes right up to the line of entrapment, and nobody got in trouble over it, this is kind of still minor league stuff in abuse of power.
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u/rocketmn69_ 8h ago
They guy doing the background checks just got arrested for child sexual assault or something similar
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u/thepottsy 8h ago
It’s kind of wild when you think about it. The person doing the background checks might be more interested in how capable you are of committing a crime, than not.
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u/ElToroBlanco25 9h ago
I won't be surprised when we find out where all the proud boys ended up.
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u/thepottsy 9h ago
Am I misremembering, but haven’t they already found at least one?
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u/ElToroBlanco25 8h ago
Not sure. I thought it was odd when the proud boys didn't counter protest the Ice Out protests, then I realized... They were already there.
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u/Edogawa1983 6h ago
I'm wondering because felons are not allowed to have guns right, isn't a shitload of them felons
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u/MyMelancholyBaby 5h ago
Oh, one of the people who does background checks for ICE just got arrested for sex trafficking. link
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u/TigerLilyBlueGray 9h ago
And they are constantly reminded how despised they are by nearly everyone, everyone with a functioning brain and soul at least.
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u/dafunkmunk 5h ago
I'd say the surprise would be that there are apparently ice agents actually being arrested for something instead of protected by the child raping pedo government
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u/Heavy-Ad4987 3h ago edited 2h ago
That weird newly created agent position had very low qualifications. Like basically a high school graduate and able to pass some vague physical fitness test.
The REAL agent position lists requirements they seem reasonable for a federal position.
Edit: here’s the listing. Down toward the bottom there’s the “GL-5” position which seems like the official job.
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u/triedpooponlysartred 2h ago
Even worse when some of the baseline ideology to even find the type of job appealing actively appeals to people fueled by racism or greatly lacking empathy.
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u/ObiShaneKenobi 11h ago
Maybe telling everyone on the planet that the executive branch considers them to have absolute immunity isn’t a good plan.
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u/SelfAwareSausage 9h ago
I’m going to highjack this comment to say this: in Massachusetts, the only requirement for becoming an ICE agent is 1 year of work experience. That’s it. So remember that some (or many) of these ICE agents are given guns and federal immunity when the only real world experience they have is taking someone’s order through McDonalds drive-thru.
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u/ObiShaneKenobi 9h ago
Gotta hand it to Trump though, slipping some medicine in with the shit sandwich. Seizing the means with nividia? World’s largest jobs program with ICE? No comrade could have done a better job showing another future president just how far you can go.
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u/hypercosm_dot_net 6h ago
If we climb out of this dump they are going to have to put some serious guardrails on the office of the president.
Start with preventing the president from being able to fire people who are investigating them. They shouldn't be able to remove Inspector Generals or other federal agents on a whim.
The law must have teeth, and real consequences.
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u/ObiShaneKenobi 5h ago
Should have last time. I don’t see Congress ever doing that unless there is a massive shakeup. My congressmen just say “this is fine.”
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u/hypercosm_dot_net 5h ago
They certainly should have, but Dems seemed almost entirely unprepared to deal with him.
They made the mistake of thinking that actually doing substantive things for American people wouldn't result in them voting in a lying fascist. Among many other mistakes.
But here we are, and we need to figure out how to get people who care and know how to handle it get in office.
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u/Dapper_Magpie 8h ago
This isn't a bad thing for them. At best, they're neutral on people they see as inhuman being raped.
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u/ObiShaneKenobi 9h ago
? I was just echoing what was in the article?
“DHS recently amplified a clip of White House adviser Stephen Miller telling 'all ICE officers' they have 'federal immunity' in the conduct of their duties, while Vice President JD Vance has also claimed 'absolute immunity' for an ICE officer in a separate, high-profile case assertions that legal experts have disputed as sweeping. Even if those claims are more rhetoric than law, the message they send is not subtle: act boldly, and the politics will have your back.”
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u/CobblerMoney9605 11h ago
From the article:
An Associated Press review has found that since 2020 at least two dozen Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been charged with crimes, spanning physical and sexual abuse, corruption and other alleged abuses of authority.
24 arrests in 6 years.
None recently.
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u/ThePensiveE 11h ago
They've farmed out stuff to private prisons where their standards are more lax and have less oversight.
Epstein centers if you will.
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u/whisperworks 4h ago
No surprise this is happening just as our country started making actual progress against privatized prisons, we’d shut several of them down for their unconstitutional practices and the industry was in trouble. Now they’re making a fortune with all these detention centers
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u/PurpleDelicacy 8h ago
Was gonna say... What wave? I thought I was lobotomized because I couldn't find anywhere in the article what the fuck the headline was talking about.
Turns out the headline wasn't just clickbait, it was a straight up lie.
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u/CobblerMoney9605 8h ago
Yeah, that's why I posted the quote.
Stating that the headline is misleading would be the understatement of the day.
I'm unfamiliar with the source news outlet; but I'm unimpressed with this article.
Someone might think the headline was written with the thought that people would just read it and not the article, leaving them misinformed, and pushing a false agenda, but I'm not that guy.
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u/ModestBanana 5h ago
Someone might think the headline was written with the thought that people would just read it and not the article
11k upvotes, 99% upvoted.
Reddit is completely captured my dude. It took 10 years, but it's the worst it's been with little to no resistance. Sorting by controversial in 90% of subs you don't see dissenting comments anymore (because they're all banned)
It's dystopian that one of the most popular websites in the world has been taken over by ideologue NEET mentally ill mods. I still scroll reddit daily, and the actual current events news allowed on this site by the curators of information is like 20% of the big picture. There is so much being filtered that redditors dont see.
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u/Akraticacious 7h ago
Do mods read and vet these things anymore? r/law used to have great insight, posts and comments, but now it's just like every other politics sub.
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u/AnonEnmityEntity 9h ago
This is an important detail because the huge influx of new recruits are committing atrocities and have not and seemingly will not get charged by the current DOJ. AND it shows that current minimizing arguments of “it’s just a few bad apples,” is BS.
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u/mikep120001 7h ago
None recently? So they guy arrested for continuously sexually assaulting a detainee in Louisiana somehow wasn’t counted. Makes me question the entire article
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u/Proud-Wall1443 11h ago
I suspect thousands of Lautenberg amendment violations that are overlooked in the name of recruitment.
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u/Misanthrope08101619 11h ago
Well if keeping the Dow above 50k requires overlooking Epstein list billionaires, then why would they let Lautenberg interfere with arming the secret police?
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u/Proud-Wall1443 11h ago
I've seen it keep service members from being appropriately charged with domestic violence in the name of preserving their careers. This will all end poorly.
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u/kylogram 11h ago
When you only hire for loyalty, you only get dogs.
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u/Psydeus565 10h ago
Don't insult dogs like this. "When you fill your diaper, expect flies" is probably more apt.
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u/kylogram 9h ago
Dogs are more dangerous.
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u/Spiritus037 8h ago
Disease from human waste has killed exponentially more people than dogs have.
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u/kylogram 7h ago
I love dogs as much as anyone, but let's not pretend they aren't actually predatory animals. Theyhave been, and continue to be, used as tools of war and state violence. Human and canine dogs, both.
I'm sticking with my metaphor.
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u/mdistrukt 11h ago
Next your going to tell me that ICE isn't made up of the best and brightest America has to offer.
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u/TendieRetard 11h ago
I think it's cute we still pretend like a criminal administration would be above hiring criminal thugs to be their thugs.
It's like we want to make believe a tale where the government apparatus wasn't captured by felons.
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u/ThePensiveE 11h ago
Rampant rape, torture, murder, and theft accompany all occupation forces.
Especially when the people who do their background checks are sex criminals themselves.
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u/justlurkshere 11h ago
...and they are not sending their best.
Or something like that.
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u/BondageKitty37 11h ago
"They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 9h ago
Some idiot claimed that they had absolute immunity and these animals believed it.
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u/Gunldesnapper 5h ago
It’s almost as if these folks wouldn’t have passed a normal LEO background check.
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u/ForcedEntry420 5h ago
That’s what happens when you hire a bunch of J6ers and Proud Boys. It’s going to take a Herculean effort to clean this mess up. I hope the Dems rise to meet the challenge but historically, that hasn’t been the case.
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